P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.
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The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.
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Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.
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The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.